In this very special episode, we interview Britton Watkins about his upcoming documentary Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues while his husband films us for said documentary. Keep your eye out for their crowdfunding to start, and look forward to seeing our faces when the film is released next year. You can see information on...  Read more »

Conlangery #112: The Conlanging film with Britton Watkins

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I interview Jessie Peterson of  @LangTimeStudio  about her Conlang Year project, as well as her other conlanging education and promotion projects. See Conlang Year here: https://www.quothalinguist.com/

Jessie Peterson’s Conlang Year

I talked to  Artifexian about his work on Abheski and the new conlanging community on YouTube.

Interview with Artifexian

Today, I interview Agma Schwa about dog languages, cursed conlangs, and creativity. Make sure to check out this year’s Cursed Conlang Circus!

Cursed Conlanging with Agma Schwa

https://youtu.be/KpLt4v2PhQA
George talked to Paul Frommer, the creator of Na'vi, about his work creating languages for movies. 

Resources mentioned: 




Looking at Languages by Paul Frommer and Edward Finegan 



An Annotated Dictionary of Na'vi by Stefan G. Müller 



Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues 



A Guide to Barsoom by John Flint Roy 



Possible and Probable Languages by Frederick J. Newmeyer






Talking Movie Conlanging with Paul Frommer

George breaks down a paper that discusses ChatGPT’s supposed ability to create languages. It is not impressive. Citations Diamond, Justin. “Genlangs and Zipf’s Law.” ArXiv Computer Science, 2023. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2304/2304.12191.pdf De Marzo, Giordano, Francesco Sylos Labini, and Luciano Pietronero. “Zipf’s Law for Cosmic Structures: How Large Are the Greatest Structures in the Universe?” Astronomy & Astrophysics...  Read more »

Conlangery #112: The Conlanging film with Britton Watkins

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